Civil War Genealogy Database
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27th Virginia Infantry
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Company Unknown
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Friend Clay Cox - Unknown
Contact Name:
Lance Robertson
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 5/14/2014
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Company A
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John Harvey Hart - Corporal
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My great grandfather served in the Stonewall Brigade both at Chancellorsville and at Culp's Hill at Gettysburg. He was wounded at Gettysburg and then taken as POW in Williamsport, MD. He was a POW at Point Lookout Maryland from July 1863 until March 1865, when exchanged.
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Contact Name:
Thomas C Hart Jr
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Date Added: 2/4/2008
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Company C
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S. (Spotswood) N. (Nicholas) Gibson - Private
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In the John Garibaldi letters in posession of the VMI and displayed on their website, he is the Mr. Gibson mentioned several times. They were neighbors in Clifton Forge, Va.
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Contact Name:
Clint Matlock
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 1/12/2008
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Company C
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George W Harmon - Private
Contact Name:
Brian Piaquadio
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/17/2012
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Company C
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Peyton A. Jackson - 4th Sergeant
Contact Name:
Gunnar Gardner
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Date Added: 11/23/2010
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Company C
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Samuel B Lowry - 2nd Lieutenant
Contact Name:
Kevin Russell
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 4/13/2011
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Company C
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andrew j martin - Private
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Company D
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William A. Dawson - 2nd Lieutenant
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Mustered into service 15 May 1861 @ Staunton, Va by Col. John Echols as a Private.
Apppointed M. Sgt 20 June 1862
Appointed 2nd Lieutenant by 18 Jan 1864.
Taken prisioner near Spottsylvania 14 May 1864
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Contact Name:
Robert D. Floyd
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Date Added: 7/16/2012
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Company D
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William Lewis Lynch - Private
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Company D
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Lorenzo Dow McGhee - Private
Contact Name:
Todd McDaniel
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 6/7/2007
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Company D
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William Nelson McNutt - 1st Sergeant
Contact Name:
William F. Dawson
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 1/15/2016
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Company D
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William Nelson McNutt - Private
Contact Name:
Bill Gillespie
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 11/16/2010
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Company D
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George W Scott - Private
Contact Name:
Brian Piaquadio
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/17/2012
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Company E
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George Madison Noel - Private
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He joined in Feb. 1863 at Camp Winder at or near Moss Neck Manor near Fredericksburg. The Stonewall Brigade was at winter quarters there.
Although he was from Rockbridge Co., VA, the unit he was assigned to was Co. E, known as the 'Greenbrier Rifles and/or the Lewisburg Rifles'. (Greenbrier Co. was in VA until a number of counties broke away and formed West Virginia later in 1863).
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Company E
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Jacob Reaser - Private
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Jacob was born Nov. 16, 1839 in Augusta Co., Virginia. His family moved to Greenbrier Co., then Virginia. May 9, 1861,
Jacob enlisted at Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co, VA into Co. E, 27th Regiment, CSA, 6th VA Infantry.
On July 21, 1861, he was wounded during the First Battle of Bull Run. On a roster dated 8-31,1861 he was listed as, 'Absent, not paid. Left sick in Winchester.'
Some Jacob's Civil War records list Jacob's last name as Reeser.
The April 1, 1862 issue of the Staunton Spectator states that Jacob was one of two killed from the 27th VA under Col. Echols, while engaged in the the 1st Battle of Kernstown near Winchester, VA on 3-23-1862.
No documentation to date has been discovered where Jacob was buried. However, the Confederates reprtedly buried their dead soldiers from the Kernstown Battle in the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery, which is a section inside the Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, VA. There are 829 unknown Confederate Soldiers buried there.
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Company F
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William A. Ackerly - Private
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William A. Ackerly was one of six sons of Peter Ackerly and Lydia Ackerly of Natural Bridge, Rockbrige Co., Va. to serve in the Cinil War. His company was made up of alot of men from Greenbriar Co. (later this would become a county in West Virginia) but there were several from Rockbridge Co. in that company as well. He joined on April 19, 1862. He was wounded at the Battle of Port Republic on June 9th, 1862. He survived the war.
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Contact Name:
Diane Coleman
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Date Added: 3/4/2008
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Company F
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William Shilling - Private
Contact Name:
Kathie Trent Kingery
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/31/2010
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Company G
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Elisha Francis Lockridge - Private
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Enlisted New Market 19 Mar. 1862
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Contact Name:
Robert Haynes
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Date Added: 8/22/2009
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Company H
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Robert William Drain - Private
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Pvt. Robert Drain was my gr-gr-grandfather. Born in Rockbridge County Va. in 1837, drafted into the CSA in March 1862. Wounded at Chancellorsville, returned to his unit later that year (1863). Survived the Overland Campaign and Wilderness/ Spotsylvania battles. Moved to Parkersburg WV shortly after the war ended.
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Company H
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Jacob Hickman - Private
Contact Name:
Jason Harlen Rife
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 9/1/2010
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Company H
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Edward Thomas Jessup - Corporal
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My Great Grandfather served in the Co H(Rockbridge Rifles), 27th VA INF (Stonewall Brigade).
Enlisted: 15 July 1861
Wounded at 2nd Manassas: 29 August 1862
Captured at Spotsylvania Courthouse: 12 May 1864
Released: 22 June 1865
POB: Rockbridge County, VA
b.24 May 1844 - d.7 August 1917
Married: Louisiana Jessup (Mallory)
Buried: Maplewood Cemetery, Charlottesville, VA
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Contact Name:
Douglas E. Jessup
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Date Added: 2/2/2010
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Company H
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Jacob R Shilling - Private
Contact Name:
Kathie Trent Kingery
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/31/2010
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